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Kim Jones Focuses on Draping for Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023

Andrea Bossi

6 July 2023 at 11:15 am·3-min read

Ahead of Fendi's Haute Couture Fall 2023 show, Kim Jones released a statement that set the tone — and expectation — for his latest collection.

"This season, we wanted to concentrate on the achievement of fluidity, drape and shape through couture techniques, bringing these elements together with the attitude of today," he wrote in the show notes.

Each Fall 2023 Haute Couture design toys with the technique, showcasing its versatility and possibility by iterating. The opening look boasts an asymmetrical shape and an extended flute sleeve, done in a light nude hue. It's followed by a teal number, cinched at the waist and draped with silk. Jones will create structure with bandage-like details across the bodice, outlining the silhouette of whoever's wearing it.

Colors range from champagne to dark chocolate and tomato red, the palette pulled "from flesh tones as well as that of stones: black diamonds, rubies, sapphires," Jones explained in the show notes. "There is a play of soft and hard, flesh and stone."

On the runway, models carried matching minaudières with most looks and held them, very specifically, in the middle of their chest, as if over their hearts. They also showcased the latest high jewelry collection by Delfina Delettrez Fendi, dubbed Fendi Triptych, which fuses rigid and orderly elements pulled from Roman architecture with more abstract and imperfect ones from the natural world.

"There's an obsessive precision you need to make jewelry like this, such small objects that have such strength, meaning and personality," Delettrez Fendi said, in a statement. "And yet, in the end, they have a direct and intimate relationship to the body; they are a profound and personal extension of the woman."

Scroll down to see every look from the Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023 show.

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

Fendi Haute Couture Fall 2023. Photo: Launchmetrics Spotlight

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